In our quest to keep our readers up to date with the latest stories relating to the food truck industry has compiled a list of the stories that hit the wire this weekend from Boston, Hamilton, Washington DC and Durham.
January 25
Local food truck trend goes into overdrive – BOSTON, MA – Come April, the city will have 56 trucks dishing food across Boston neighborhoods, up from just 15 when the city first cautiously kicked the tires of the trend in July 2011. Food trucks are coming to new parts of the city, including East Boston, Roxbury, and Charlestown, and those locations that started with one truck now have three or more, bringing a diverse mix of cuisines and cultures to the streets of a city once famous for its parochial tastes.
Trucks across the city now serve everything from Southern comfort food to Asian barbecue. The trend has become so popular that local truck chefs have their own food festivals and cooking contests, and some operators are even opening their own brick-and-mortar restaurants. Meantime, there is a growing network of businesses such as truck repair and emergency staffing to support them.
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Gorilla Cheese partners split up – HAMILTON, CANADA – One of Hamilton’s glowing business success stories is turning into a messy divorce.
The partners behind the popular Gorilla Cheese food truck have split, leaving the future of the business in doubt and debt.
“We intended this to be an amicable divorce, but as with any divorce things are starting to get complicated,” said Graeme Smith, who with Scott and Susan Austin, started the wildly popular food truck business in July 2011.
“Now we’re in a state of day-to-day trying to get by.”
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January 26
Food truck will deliver message of Mideast peace – WASHINGTON DC – Make way for the Peace Truck.
Moustafa M. Soliman, a 76-year-old Egyptian American author and activist, wants to spread the message of attainable peace between Arabs and Jews with a food truck that serves kosher eats from one window and halal treats from another.
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January 27
Food trucks emblem of Durham’s ‘D.I.Y. District’ – DURHAM, NC – Chef Stacey Grisham said he was a little concerned about cold weather Sunday, but he needn’t have been.
“It looks like it’s going to be a beautiful day,” he said at about noon, as he and more than 30 other vendors were opening for business at the food-truck rodeo in Durham Central Park.
The Refectory Cafe, where Grisham is head chef, was making its first appearance at a food-truck rodeo on the cool, but sunny, afternoon.
